Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TrueScouse who wrote (6198)	3/21/2005 9:53:33 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

Bristol men invented the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, which was keel-hull yacht which would stand anchored in any weather, like a buoy in a channel. I doubt that they would have been comfortable to live aboard but safe. Would that they designed fishing boats today in the same way. It may be too that Bristol Fisherman found their way to Newfoundland and fished its code in 1450, perhaps 42 years before Columbus landed on another Island, Hispaniola. They kept if secret as it was commercial information, but recent looks at maps and writings seem to confirm this. EC<:-}

To: TrueScouse who wrote (6198)	3/27/2005 2:23:56 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

That's what they call the Bristol Stomp, maybe eh ... [name of oldies tune, heard on the radio the other day] ... yes, from great injustice there came art ... it works that way, as fat happy people unaware of looming tragedy tend not to make so much art, or very effective art, velvet Elvises aside ... take Constable, who never had much success in his lifetime, he was recording a romanticised image of what he saw being lost to industrialisation ... grande olde english yeomanry, slugging it out on the family farm every day of your short life, never seeing the village five miles beyond your nearest, no modern tools, no electric light, no real influence on shire politics let alone national or the world Things have changed, somewhat ... maybe in degree only, and for relatively few of us, yes ... but we're a whole lot richer now, and with more personal power, those of us in a few developed nations ... imagine what Swift would give, to be with us here on the net, he'd produce more and perhaps less modest proposals, no doubt .... unless - [uh-oh] - he and the people around him felt no immediate threat ... Unrelated, one hopes, to the thought 'immediate threat', what do you think will happen next with Cadre? ... chart looks like it's getting time for another of those Yes We Are Advancing news releases ... i haven't sold a share, this time around, got the general feeling that they've got it rolling ... but, <sigh>, it could roll slow for a while .... or, not